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Mercedes Police Department

City agency in Hidalgo, Texas. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2020.

ORI: TX1080900
Type: City
County: Hidalgo
State: Texas
FBI reporting: Reporting since 2020-07-01
Location: 26.1487, -97.9122

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 17,869.

27Sworn officers

8Civilian staff

1.96Employees per 1,000 people

17,869Population served

Year	Officers	Civilians	Population served	Per 1,000
2025	27	8	17,869	1.96
2024	34	8	16,893	2.49
2023	32	7	16,949	2.30
2022	39	8	16,365	2.87
2021	38	6	16,684	2.64
2020	33	8	16,699	2.46
2019	32	7	16,882	2.31
2017	29	9	16,762	2.27
2016	31	7	16,830	2.26
2013	31	5	16,480	2.18
2012	29	7	16,417	2.19
2011	36	8	15,898	2.77

Officer and civilian counts are full-time employees as filed by the agency in its annual return. A dash means the agency did not report that figure for that year — it does not mean zero.

Also policing Hidalgo

Jurisdictions overlap. These agencies are also recorded against the same county, so a single address may be covered by more than one of them.

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Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record TX1080900. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.